One notable early finding, Ms. Phillips said, is that teachers who incessantly drill their students to prepare
for standardized tests tend to have lower value - added learning gains than those who simply work their way methodically through the key concepts of literacy and mathematics.
Not exact matches
In contrast to charters in suburban areas, which
tend toward a progressive pedagogy, central - city charters typically embrace the «no - excuses» model of teaching and learning, emphasizing strict dress codes, rigorous discipline, extended school days and school years, and high expectations
for performance on
standardized tests.
When you are being abused or hearing about children and parents being abused and harassed
for opting out of the unfair and discriminatory Common Core SBAC
test or when you are paying more in taxes and watching important school programs and services cut, now that thanks to our elected and appointed officials we are pissing away $ 100,000,000.00 a year forcing children to take a
test that will tell us that students from rich families
tend to do better and student from poor families
tend to do worse on
standardized tests.
For decades, the
standardized test scores of California students have shown that achievement gaps based on race, ethnicity and class — while troubling —
tended to narrow over time.
I've previously posted about studies that have found that the laser - like focus on raising student
test scores often identifies teachers who are good at doing that, but those VAM - like measures tend to short - change educators who are good at developing Social Emotional or «non-cognitive skills» (see More Evidence Showing The Dangers Of Using High - Stakes Testing For Teacher Evaluation; Another Study Shows Limitations Of Standardized Tests For Teacher Evaluations; Study Finds Teachers Whose Students Achieve High Test Scores Often Don't Do As Well With SEL Skills and SEL Weekly Upda
test scores often identifies teachers who are good at doing that, but those VAM - like measures
tend to short - change educators who are good at developing Social Emotional or «non-cognitive skills» (see More Evidence Showing The Dangers Of Using High - Stakes
Testing For Teacher Evaluation; Another Study Shows Limitations Of
Standardized Tests For Teacher Evaluations; Study Finds Teachers Whose Students Achieve High
Test Scores Often Don't Do As Well With SEL Skills and SEL Weekly Upda
Test Scores Often Don't Do As Well With SEL Skills and SEL Weekly Update).